“Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. -Nana”
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
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A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. It is his second, following his bestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner. Mariam is an illegitimate child, and suffers from both the stigma surrounding her birth along with the abuse she faces throughout her marriage. Laila, born a generation later, is comparatively privileged during her youth until their lives intersect and she is also forced to accept a marriage proposal from Rasheed, Mariam's husband.
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Laila, p. 395
Variant: Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
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“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
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Context: Nana (to Mariam) : A man's heart isn't like a woman's womb, Mariam! It won't bleed, it won't make room for you. A man's heart is a wretched, wretched thing. I'm all you have in this world, Mariam and when I'm gone, you'll have nothing. You are nothing!
“Marriage can wait, education cannot.”
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Variant: Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion".
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“Regret…when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.”
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Jalil's letter
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“But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her”
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“Laila has moved on. Because in the end she knows that’s all she can do. That and hope.”
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“You know."
"Know what?"
"That I only have eyes for you.”
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Mariam, p. 370
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Context: She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.
“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
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Variant: Laila came to believe that of all the hardships a person has to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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“And I wrote to you, Laila. Volumes.”
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Tariq
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